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A 6.7 magnitude earthquake woke Angelenos at 4:30 in the morning on January 17th, 1994. Called the Northridge Earthquake, it killed fifty-seven people and caused between $20 and $40 billion worth of ...
The Resnick Sustainability Center, an 80,000-square-foot hub currently housing four research centers, opened in October 2024. (Michael Moran) The new $133 million RSC, an 80,000-square-foot hub ...
In a Caltech lab, a computer screen showed thousands of tiny points of light—each one a single atom, held in place by laser beams. This striking image revealed 6,100 stable quantum bits, or qubits. It ...
A study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and California Institute of Technology, or Caltech, debunks a common misconception about the origin of oxygen-producing photosynthesis. Berkeley Lab ...
Experiments from the Caltech lab of Chiara Daraio have yielded a fascinating new type of matter, neither granular nor crystalline, that responds to some stresses as a fluid would and to others like a ...